robbers

Left 4 Dead has been so successful that it’s surprising that more developers don’t adopt Valve’s co-op formula. Military shooters have sprouted like weeds trailing after the money generated by Call of Duty but strangely the concept of tightly designed, objective-based missions with buddies hasn’t spawned more spinoffs.

The only developer that seems to have had success is Overkill Software and its hit titlePayday: The Heist. The studio adapted the four-player co-op of Left 4 Dead and fashioned it into robbers game. It worked well enough that the project sold more than 700,000 copies a year, according to the studio. With sales like that, a sequel was warranted, and thankfully, it looks as though the studio is improving every aspect of the original.